If you don't already know about Solange Knowles, younger sister to Beyoncé and fellow singer, you should. The junior Knowles graces the cover of the latest issue of The FADER, looking radiant. You might think that because she is Beyoncé's sister and also a singer that you need to choose one or the other, or that they're competing in some way. This is not the case. Solange complements Beyoncé. She makes the kind of music that sneaks up on you, not the kind that demands attention, like Beyoncé's Super Bowl halftime performance. Beyoncé works hard and shows every muscle. Solange is the Knowles who jams with her band in a vacation house in Santa Barbara and makes all her hard work look effortless, almost as if she doesn't care.

She does care. And some of the music is very good. Here, the five tracks you should start with (and a Spotify playlist):

"Losing You," True

The song that best embodies Solange's unique qualities is the single she released late last year (she calls herself just Solange; she did learn some things from the older sister). It grooves on a funky yelp of a sample and a beat that seems like it might erupt but never does. It's a song for anyone who brings headphones to the beach. Singing to the man who's spurned her, Solange isn't angry. She's contemplating. In the fantastic music video, she traipses through Cape Town, South Africa, in heels. Maybe she's even moved on.

The B-side to "Losing You" is a little different, all handclaps and pleas about how you can't survive on love alone. You can hear more of the classic soul that influenced Solange's 2008 album, SoL-Angel and the Hadley Street Dreams. She could be singing about Al Pacino and Kitty Winn in The Panic in Needle Park, but she never gets her full message across. All her thoughts are half-formed. It's a snapshot.